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Indian Beach Dawn
Indian Beach Dawn
DrAchoo


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Challenge: Free Study 2007-02 (Advanced Editing V)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Ecola State Park, Indian Beach, OR
Date: Feb 19, 2007
Galleries: Landscape, Water
Date Uploaded: Feb 19, 2007

 I feel I have come a long way since my first blue ribbon back in November '05. DPC is a huge part of that. I have always wanted to go back and shoot this picture again for a few reasons:

A) I shot JPG back then. (yuk)
B) I blew the sky out on the old one.
C) I shot it with the 300D
D) I think my processing skills are better.

So, once again, I found a morning where I could get up at 4:45AM and drive out to catch the dawn at Ecola State Park. I feel a bit bad about having it be a redo of a previous ribbon winner, but I think lots of the top ribbon earners on this site have at least one example of a similar shot entered twice. I'm not doing it just to go for another ribbon (although I wouldn't mind if it won), but rather to see what I could do with the shot a second time around.

I managed to catch about 5 minutes of pink in the sky. The tide was higher than I expected and so I had to shoot from a rock probably 6 feet above the water instead of 2 feet. That accounts for the perspective difference. I cropped differently to include more sky as well. I'm not sure if that's better or worse, but at least there is detail there instead of blown white.

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03/07/2007 05:27:27 PM
Love the colors in this one.....
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 03/07/2007 11:42:48 AM
what a shot!
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 03/07/2007 09:09:42 AM
Dayum
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 03/06/2007 03:02:57 PM
Beautiful shot, love the sky and water is incredible. Great composition and nice work.
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 03/04/2007 09:41:24 AM
Love the water! Beautiful scene and image!
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 03/04/2007 06:34:51 AM
A beautiful shot
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 03/02/2007 01:15:20 PM
Love the purples.
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 03/02/2007 11:21:12 AM
wow, very nice! I didn't think the color of the sky and the water could be that color at the same time. Wish it were a little sharper, especially around the hills, but all in all I think this will score very high. good luck.
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 03/01/2007 06:46:22 AM
Love the capture of the sea, and the color just adds to the overall feel of the photo. Nice Shot.
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 02/28/2007 10:19:23 PM
Lovely landscape - Great tones.
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 02/28/2007 08:20:51 PM
breathtaking! love the post-processing..
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